You've become the warden, and you're telling me I'm an undercover agent?

Chapter 398 The Boundary of Good and Evil
In the past year, Chi Ping has seen many evil people, as well as many people who are half good and half bad.

People like the captain are not bad at heart. They still have some kindness in their hearts, but life has worn them down. They fear the enemy's strength and dare not resist even when they are bullied.

He was standing in the captain's cabin, his dirty, greasy hair already graying, traces of time plowing down his eyes, and dandruff speckling his shoulders on his black jacket.

He glanced at Chi Ping with a burning gaze, his voice a little solemn and hoarse:
"You might be a kind, fair, and good police officer. But you can't afford to mess with the local superpower bureau.

"You should go back too. Since you are a good person, we have let you go many times. Let's go."

What he meant by "letting go" was to make a phone call when the main force was inspecting the ship, and to turn off the lights and pretend to be dead to avoid conflict with them.

According to him, he has indeed let it go many times.

Chi Ping was just thinking about how to answer the captain when he spoke again: "If you still don't leave, then I will have no choice but to let you get hurt."

As he spoke, the mummies around him stood up one after another. Some of them took the wrenches, crowbars, and kitchen knives on the boat, and some even removed a piece of wood to use as a weapon.

In an instant, Chi Ping and others were surrounded.

Chi Ping took a deep breath and had to admit that this might be one of the weakest opponents he had ever seen.

"Le Bai." Mang called out a name.

"Oh——" Le Bai put down the skewers and rolled up her sleeves. There were still greasy beards extending to both sides of her mouth from the time she was chewing the skewers.

"Come on, they don't look like bad guys."

"Come on, they're not bad people."

These two sentences were spoken simultaneously by Chi Ping and the captain. Each side felt that the other was vulnerable and could not pose a threat to them.

In particular, when the captain saw Le Bai stand up, he instructed the crew to show mercy.

When Le Bai knocked down the first crew member, the captain still didn't take it seriously;

When Le Bai knocked down a group of crew members, the captain vaguely sensed something was wrong and his expression gradually became serious.

When Le Bai knocked down all the crew members and the only people standing on the boat were Chi Ping, Mang, Le Bai and the captain himself, his face turned ugly.

All that could be heard on the boat was wailing and the sound of water lapping against the bank.

"If I beat you up now, you will tell Chi Ping what you know, right?" Le Bai walked up to the captain, and the 1.4-meter-tall girl raised her head and asked him.

"Even if you don't fight, I will tell him." The captain said.

Le Bai's two delicate eyebrows were drawn together, and a thoughtful look appeared on his round face. After a while, he said: "Let's go through the process."

She raised her little fist high and punched the captain on the double chin.

The latter crashed through the cab window and fell straight to Chi Ping's feet.

When he raised his head, he saw Chi Ping bending over and looking down.

"Can you tell me now?" Chi Ping asked.

The captain climbed up and sat down against the railing of the boat, his oily hair motionless in the river breeze.

After a while, he spoke slowly and solemnly, as if he had made some important decision:

"I don't want to implicate you. If you realize your own strength is limited during this process, you must retreat in time. I hope you don't end up like us."

"Okay." Chi Ping squatted down beside him.

"What do you want to know?"

"You can say anything about the whole thing."

"Let me think about where to begin—" The captain gazed at the bright moon in the sky, lost in thought. The river gently rocked the boat, like a childhood cradle. Chi Ping waited patiently, but then the captain's snoring began to emanate.

Chi Ping's face darkened and he woke him up.

"Let's talk about this route," the captain apologized. He was old and had little energy. He quickly wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and said, "We received the cargo from Hanting Port—" The cargo he was talking about was the mummies in the container.

"They looked like this when they boarded the ship," the captain said. "Over at Hanting Port, the high-ranking military officer from a small southwestern country who was handing over to us—I've never met their high-ranking officer, but I saw the cigars they were smoking, so I looked them up online and found out they were all specially supplied by the military.

"When we deliver the goods to Woking, the person who receives them there is also a big shot. When I was doing normal shipping, I met him with my previous boss.

"I'm just a nobody. He might not remember me, but I remember him. He was the most senior official I'd ever met. He was the deputy director of the Federal River Transport Administration."

His words made Chi Ping frown.

The deputy director of the River Transport Bureau has the same rank as the Chief Governor of Star City.

How high is this official's rank?
In the world on the other side of the boundary gate, it is equivalent to the garrison commander of an inner circle fortress.

This garrison commander needs to serve two terms, a total of ten years. If he can make some achievements during this period, he can be promoted to the General Affairs Office of Fortress Zero.

After arriving at the General Affairs Office and completing a three-month probation period, one can be promoted to a deputy position in a small department.
If you are lucky, you can be successfully promoted to a full-time official after three years, and after that you will no longer be a minor official.

Because of this official, he was able to meet the executioner, although he was still at the end of the line.

"What do they want these goods for?" Chi Ping asked again.

According to the captain, the ship was transporting smuggled mummies. These mummies were made by humans. Although the Federation was a society of people with special abilities, a large number of missing persons in a region over a long period of time would raise official alarm.

However, if they are illegal immigrants from outside, it is a completely different story. No one will care or even know they exist.

If the other party did this to avoid attracting the attention of federal officials, then it means that the source of this matter is likely not S-level, because they have no need to hide.

But the level of involvement in this matter is definitely very high. Putting aside the illusion of shielding the container, let's just talk about the call from Liu Qingshan and the person who received the goods in Woking.

Not to be underestimated.

Of course, it could also be an S-rank royal relative. An S-rank who had lived for two hundred years could directly create an entire nation if he was willing to have children.

"What about you? How did you crew members become like this? Who made you like this?"

Chi Ping asked the most crucial question.

The captain took a deep breath, half his face buried in the darkness. He subconsciously reached for a cigarette, but stopped mid-flight. In his current state, the cigarette no longer had any effect on his spirits.

"I only remember it was a woman, a little taller than me, very thin, and with a pleasant smell," the captain said. "That was our first time smuggling, but before we did, she asked us to keep it a secret. I promised her I wouldn't tell anyone, but she said only the dead could keep secrets."

“So, that’s what made us like this.”

Chi Ping glanced at the captain, who looked worried, and muttered to himself:
It seems that even the dead don't keep secrets.

"She also said we were different from the cargo. Once we had worked for her for five years and found replacements, she would set us free and pay off the five years' fees.

"So, if she can do it, you see—" The captain began to settle the account with Chi Ping: "She paid off the five years' fees. The mummy was also converted from a foreign illegal immigrant. She hasn't harmed our people in any way, right?"

"Are you sure she'll pay it off?"

"She has already settled a large part of it." The captain said, "Besides, I only have ten days left until five years. I can become a normal person and be with my child.

"You don't know, because of my sailing career, I've been separated from my wife for years and we're divorced. My mother is taking care of the child. If I had some money, I could stop sailing and do some other business and spend more time with the child. How nice—"

As he spoke, an expectant smile appeared on his face, and he added: "If you want to cause trouble for them, can you wait ten days?"

(End of this chapter)